Strangely, the traffic to this site hasn’t dipped since it’s gone inactive, and the download count on every item on the front page have kept rising. Sweet – well, keep coming, because things are looking up here on my end. For now, a song I really like lately that isn’t from a game:
This was the soundtrack where Motoi Sakuraba really started showing who he was and where he was going. This is actually a fairly banal boss track for the first 24 seconds, until it hits 16 seconds of chaos. I find those 16 seconds fascinating, and I haven’t heard anything like it from anyone other than Sakuraba. More generally, I frequently fall in love with songs for very small sections of them. Once I’ve found the nugget of genius in a song, my appreciation for it radiates out and I start enjoying the entire song more. This is definitely one of those, and I think it’s a good example of what makes Sakuraba so different.